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Those who read Release 2.0 with the expectation of learning about Dyson's dealings with other prominent figures of the cyberspace Beltway will find satisfaction in the anecdote preceding Chapter 6 which concerns the nature of intellectual property on the Internet. Though the event detailed bears little apparent relation to a concept as abstract as intellectual possession, the specifics of Dyson's meeting with Bill Gates, Vice-President Al Gore '69, and 99 high-level CEOs at Gates's own home--including a captivating description of a glassblower hired as entertainment for the occasion--eventually lead to the topic...
...foundered, Hillary largely shut out overtures from the Beltway's Democratic intelligentsia, including women who had joined the Administration in large part because of her. A top Administration woman says of the First Lady, "She doesn't travel with her peers." Says Morris: "She's very headstrong and very stubborn, and ultimately very brittle." Her bitterness would occasionally seep out. At the Democratic Convention she told the Arkansas delegation that a friend had told her she would have everything but the kitchen sink thrown at her. "Well," she said, "I just...
...credit, Microsoft has embarked upon what is probably the Web's most ambitious content-development program to date, creating offerings ranging from family fare (such as Click & Clack's wacky Car Talk site) to inside-the-Beltway political analysis (Michael Kinsley's highbrow journal Slate). But its haste to build an online empire has left Microsoft throwing lucrative contracts at pretty much any Web developer who knew how to work a mouse, hoping it would create something--anything--for MSN. A Web novice tells of walking into a meeting to pitch ideas and being asked instead for his company...
MICHAEL WEISSKOPF has rigorously documented campaign fund raising in more than 30 stories since he joined TIME in January. His determination to follow the money has led him to some interesting Beltway venues--including the office of a chief Washington lobbyist this week. In a TIME exclusive, Weisskopf reveals the identity of the man who acted as a go-between for Democratic fund raiser Johnny Chung and former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary. Such tenacity has earned him a George Polk Award for his reporting on Congress. "Campaign fund raising may seem a strange Washington game," says Weisskopf...
...military high-ups weren't the only ones to lose their stomach for a fight. William Weld got a severe case of inner-Beltway butterflies, causing him to throw in the towel against Jesse Helms. The President himself got an attack of parental nerves as Chelsea left for Stanford; so distraught was her dad that he had to lean on something extremely soft ? like the tobacco settlement...